Forthcoming Ancient Philosophy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Roman Literature, Gender and Reception

   Domina Illustris

   Edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara K. Gold, Judith Perkins

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh...

   To Be Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Animal and the Human in Ancient Thought

   By Stephen Newmyer

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern...

   To Be Published June 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Imagination

   A Study in the History of Ideas

   By John Cocking

   Edited by Penelope Murray

   An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context....

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

   Edited by Frisbee Sheffield, James Warren

   Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. A Re-Assessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought

   By Ricardo Crespo

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   In the past few years, the world has seen several financial and economic crises. Psychological, ethical and philosophical levels of causal analysis have been discussed, and in this context, an interest in classical thinkers has emerged. The work of Aristotle has influenced writers from Marx and...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge